litster

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Definition of litster

2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

(Scotland, UK, archaic)A dyer.

“But it was the woolen industry that provided the elder Smibert with a livelihood, for as a litster he spent his days dyeing wool, which was then woven into cloth.”
“Other women ran businesses that required reliance on a network of suppliers, sometimes of raw materials. Isobel Provand in the Canongate was a litster.”
“The smell of the tanners' and the litsters' work still hung in the night air, although they had long since gone to their weary beds.”

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noun

(Scotland, UK, archaic)A dyer.

“But it was the woolen industry that provided the elder Smibert with a livelihood, for as a litster he spent his days dyeing wool, which was then woven into cloth.”
“Other women ran businesses that required reliance on a network of suppliers, sometimes of raw materials. Isobel Provand in the Canongate was a litster.”
“The smell of the tanners' and the litsters' work still hung in the night air, although they had long since gone to their weary beds.”

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Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

From Middle English litestere, from liten (“to dye”) (from Old Norse litr) + -stere (see -ster).

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